LessonsRefining the Jāmiʿ and the Conditions of Elegant CoordinationQuiz

«ثم إن الجامع الخيالي هو تقارن الصور في الخيال»
The imaginative link is the association of images within imagination.

The relevant association is already available before the conjunctive expression: one remembered image makes another readily present. It need not rest on the external similarity of the things; it may rest on their repeated mental co-occurrence.

Nevertheless, noticing that co-occurrence is itself recognition of a relation. The distinction between representations and the meaning of their association must therefore be preserved.

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Imaginative linkage as prior co-occurrence of images

Refining the Jāmiʿ and the Conditions of Elegant Coordination

«ثم إن الجامع الخيالي هو تقارن الصور في الخيال»
The imaginative link is the association of images within imagination.

The relevant association is already available before the conjunctive expression: one remembered image makes another readily present. It need not rest on the external similarity of the things; it may rest on their repeated mental co-occurrence.

Nevertheless, noticing that co-occurrence is itself recognition of a relation. The distinction between representations and the meaning of their association must therefore be preserved.